Occupation: Writer Birth: October 1, 1889 Death: August 29, 1970
Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now..
Nothing is so strong as gentleness..
Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts..
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it..
When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God..
We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men i….
In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human e….
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing..
The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are ….
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats..
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are bui….
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God..
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves..
Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength..
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried ….
All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shorel….
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men..
Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ..
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste..
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow st….
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel l….